Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
The Register Citizen, Torrington | ||||||||||
Torrington, Connecticut | ||||||||||
Owner: Journal Register (N.J.) | ||||||||||
From a report for the Knight Foundation | ||||||||||
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005 | ||||||||||
Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff |
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2005 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2004 | Did not report | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | Did not report | |||||||||
2001 | 6.3 | |||||||||
2000 | 5.6 | |||||||||
1999 | 4.3 | |||||||||
1998 | Did not report | |||||||||
1997 | Did not report | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | Did not report | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | Did not report | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | 0.0 | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2001 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for The Register Citizen, Torrington | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 0 | |||||||
2004 | N/A | 6.1 | N/A | |||||||
How the index is calculated | ||||||||||
The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff | ||||||||||
divided by the non-white percentage of residents in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
(Parity = 100.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Journal Register (N.J.), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 24. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for The Register Citizen, Torrington | ||||||||||
This newspaper's Newsroom Diversity Index is 0. | This paper | |||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
Compare that with 0, which is the median Diversity Index for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
In that group, this newspaper's Diversity Index ranks 83 out of 211 | ||||||||||
newspapers reporting in the category of 5,001 to 10,000 daily sales. | ||||||||||
An example of a newspaper of similar circulation, in an area of similar level of non-white residents, but one that has a relatively high Diversity Index, is The Cherokee Tribune, Canton, Georgia, with a 11.1 percent non-white staff in a community that is 9.6 percent non-white. Its index is 116. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 8,131 ranks 901 out of 1,410 daily newspapers in the US. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Details on race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
in the circulation area | ||||||||||
and the home county | ||||||||||
of The Register Citizen, Torrington | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.5 | 1,929 | ||||||||
Black | 1.2 | 926 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2 | 918 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 116 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 69 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.0 | 749 | ||||||||
Non-white | 6.1 | 4,707 | ||||||||
White | 93.9 | 71,901 | ||||||||
Total | 76,608 | |||||||||
Home county: Litchfield | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
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Hispanic | 2.1 | 3,894 | ||||||||
Black | 1.0 | 1,837 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.2 | 2,142 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.2 | 279 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 203 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 0.9 | 1,684 | ||||||||
Non-white | 5.5 | 10,039 | ||||||||
White | 94.5 | 172,154 | ||||||||
Total | 182,193 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Litchfield. | ||||||||||
About this report | ||||||||||
This third annual report for the Knight Foundation adds context to an annual survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ASNE has set a goal that | ||||||||||
every newspaper, to help it know its community and gather the news, should employ at least one non-white journalist, and that newspapers should strive to | ||||||||||
employ non-whites in proportion to their share of the community. ASNE's report, at www.asne.org, shows each newspaper's non-white employment, but does | ||||||||||
not disclose how closely that employment mirrors the newspaper's circulation area. | ||||||||||
That gap is filled by the report you are reading now. This report was not done by ASNE, but was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and | ||||||||||
Stephen K. Doig. It shows how close each newspaper is to ASNE's goal, by comparing the newsroom staffing with the circulation area population. | ||||||||||
The full report is at www.powerreporting.com/knight. | ||||||||||
Notes and definitions | ||||||||||
1. The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff divided by the non-white percentage of the circulation area's residents. Parity = 100. | ||||||||||
2. Source for staffing: Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 2005. Newspapers report non-white staff as of the end of the previous year. | ||||||||||
3. Following ASNE's definition, newsroom staff includes only supervisors, reporters, editors, copy/layout editors and photographers. | ||||||||||
4. Also following ASNE's definition, "whites," "blacks," etc., exclude Hispanics, who are counted in a separate category. | ||||||||||
5. Source for boundaries of this newspaper's circulation area: ZIP Code circulation data, Audit Bureau of Circulations, latest available. | ||||||||||
6. A paper may define its circulation area differently for marketing efforts, or news coverage, or to set advertising rates. | ||||||||||
7. If ZIP Codes or counties are used, this report applies a threshold: 10 percent household penetration is required to include an area in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
8. Source for the demographics of residents of that circulation area: US Census 2000. | ||||||||||
9. Source for total circulation: Editor & Publisher magazine, Monday-Friday average at year-end 2004. | ||||||||||
10. Staff of non-English publications, such as the Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald, are excluded from the ASNE staffing survey for the first time this year. | ||||||||||
Demographics of ZIP Codes | ||||||||||
where sales were reported by | ||||||||||
The Register Citizen, Torrington | ||||||||||
Note that some ZIP Codes listed here may not have been included in determining the newspaper's circulation area. In calculating the Diversity Index, a | ||||||||||
ZIP Code was included only if the household penetration was at least 10 percent. Any lower-penetration ZIP Codes are also listed here for your information. | ||||||||||
Also, if the newspaper reported more than 300 ZIP Codes, only the top 300 in weekday sales are listed here. | ||||||||||
ZIP / City / State / Approx. distance in miles from the newspaper's home office | Weekday sales | Households | Penetration % (daily sales per 100 households) | Median household income | Non-white % of population |
Hispanic % of population |
Black % of population |
Native % of population |
Asian % of population |
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06790 / Torrington / CT / 0 mi. | 5,384 | 14,788 | 36.4 | $41,812 | 8.5 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 1.8 | |
06098 / Winsted / CT / 8 mi. | 1,672 | 5,771 | 29.0 | $52,346 | 5.7 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.8 | |
06759 / Litchfield / CT / 6.9 mi. | 484 | 2,298 | 21.1 | $65,063 | 4.4 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.6 | |
06057 / New Hartford / CT / 6.5 mi. | 405 | 1,852 | 21.9 | $64,261 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
06791 / Harwinton / CT / 6.7 mi. | 382 | 1,968 | 19.4 | $66,056 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | |
06756 / Goshen / CT / 5.5 mi. | 299 | 1,027 | 29.1 | $63,466 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
06018 / Canaan / CT / 16.2 mi. | 164 | 1,150 | 14.3 | $39,440 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
06058 / Norfolk / CT / 10.4 mi. | 108 | 719 | 15.0 | $58,125 | 3.4 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | |
06750 / Bantam / CT / 10.7 mi. | 102 | 590 | 17.3 | $39,896 | 4.0 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | |
06787 / Thomaston / CT / 11.2 mi. | 81 | 3,393 | 2.4 | $55,946 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.4 | |
06063 / Barkhamsted / CT / 10.9 mi. | 79 | 217 | 36.4 | $57,708 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | |
06013 / Burlington / CT / 10.2 mi. | 78 | 2,853 | 2.7 | $82,106 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.8 | |
06065 / Riverton / CT / 10.2 mi. | 71 | 91 | 78.0 | $59,844 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
06027 / East Hartland / CT / 14.8 mi. | 70 | 500 | 14.0 | $62,446 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
06019 / Canton / CT / 12.1 mi. | 47 | 1,661 | 2.8 | $62,367 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.6 | |
06069 / Sharon / CT / 16.2 mi. | 47 | 1,148 | 4.1 | $53,152 | 4.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | |
06031 / Falls Village / CT / 13.3 mi. | 45 | 627 | 7.2 | $55,694 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
06039 / Lakeville / CT / 18.1 mi. | 36 | 987 | 3.6 | $52,609 | 6.0 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 0.1 | 1.3 | |
06778 / Northfield / CT / 8.4 mi. | 25 | 14 | 178.6 | $46,250 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
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